"There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing."

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Source : Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

Helen Cresswell

#Knowing Quotes #Frustrating Quotes #Discretion Quotes

“In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.”
“People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. Then things began to change. In the early 80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.”
“Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.”
“Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.”

Source : Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.
“Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.”
“Right now, I wish Iâ€™d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I donâ€™t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leavingâ€”that you love me, but you donâ€™t need me. You donâ€™t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.”
“To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.”
“George Jones has been a major part of my personal and professional life for a long time. I have been inspired by his music for the last 50 years and for 42 of those, I had the pleasure of knowing him personally and professionally. He was IT to me. George was and will always be my guy. I am luckier than a lot of people on this Earth because God let me be a part of George's life and him a part of mine. And on this day, his song couldn't be more true: 'He Stopped Loving Her Today.'”

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